Feeling sick? Dizzy? Vulnerable? Aching? It might be the onset of flu. Instead, though, it might be what film and TV star Helen Mirren describes when “there is that awful moment when you realise that you’re falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and it’s not. It’s always a moment that’s full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain. All the angst of a relationship.”

Here then come high hopes followed by high anxiety about losing control. You might be in love, but “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” as the Shirelles put it. A couple of weeks ago we had the theme of seduction songs, with a very fine A-list, but this week’s theme is far more about what happens to the heart, and other parts of the mind and body, aside from the loins, in songs that describe the feeling of falling for somebody on an emotional and all-consuming level. We have previously, in the distant past, had topics of first love, unrequited love and devoted love, but of course many great songs did not make the lists. So are there plenty out there about falling in love? I think there might well be.

Is this what falling in love feels like? Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters/Corbis

But how does falling in love really feel? Like floating on air? Like a buzz of electricity on your veins? For inspiration, let’s look back then to a bit of adolescent excitement as John Gordon Sinclair plucks up the courage to ask Dee Hepburn something in Bill Forstyth’s timelessly touching Gregory’s Girl from 1981.

But was Gregory really falling for the right girl? How do you know when it’s really love? Let’s take a look then at a public information film for young people back in 1950 entitled, rather appropriately, How Do You Know It’s Love? “It’s nothing like the slush they give you in the movies,” they instruct us. Oh dear, sorry. That’s me told, then.

Falling in love isn’t easy, and you might fall for the wrong person who is unobtainable in some way. But that doesn’t make your feelings any less important. So even though the topic has come up before, other songs about unrequited love should also definitely be in the running.

Now, despite what they told us in 1950, I want to take you on another date to the movies. We don’t have to hold hands or anything. But what more moving subject than to go even further back to 1945, and a terribly, terribly moving scene between Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter. Their final farewell is ruined by simply ghastly, rude woman. Oh, the cruelty of railway stations, and circumstance.

So then, sensitive and knowledgeable readers, and indeed now visitors to the Readers Recommend railway tea rooms, place your falling in love songs in the china cups and saucers provided below (in comments and optionally in the Spotify playlist by last orders - 11pm GMT on Monday 27 October). And who better then, to be this week’s ticket collector of love, but longstanding RR regular Fuel, who faces a most romantic week of highs and lows before creating his final list out on Thursday 30 October. We wish him well. Now please blow him your musical kisses.

Spotify playlist for songs about falling in love

To increase the likelihood of your nomination being considered, please:

• Tell us why it’s a worthy contender.• Quote lyrics if helpful, but for copyright reasons no more than a third of a song’s words.• Provide a link to the song. We prefer Muzu or YouTube, but Spotify, SoundCloud or Grooveshark are fine.• Listen to others people’s suggestions and add yours to a collaborative Spotify playlist.• If you have a good theme for Readers recommend, or if you’d like to volunteer to compile a playlist, please email peter.kimpton@theguardian.com• There’s a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are “zedded”, at the Marconium. It also tells you the meaning of “zedded”, “donds” and other strange words used by RR regulars.• Many RR regulars also congregate at the ‘Spill blog.